1. The ones your son gives you.

2. The ones your daughter reads over and over again.

3. The ones your son and daughter were assigned in high school and college.

4. The ones your son and daughter write.

5. The ones your husband reads, even if they’re about industrialists, capitalists, and how to achieve your dreams. Because he always reads the ones you give him to read about artists, dreamers, lovers, and rainbows.

6. The ones your mom and dad are reading and have read.

7. The ones your mom studied so she could master financial independence.

8. The ones your mom and dad give you.

9. The ones your sisters give you.

10. The ones your sisters write.

11. The ones your brothers and sisters give to your son and daughter.

12. The Bible. King James Version. (Might not finish before you die. But there will be versions of these stories wherever you end up.)

13. The Dictionary. (Hahahahaha)

14. The ones your friends, teachers, and spirit guides recommend.

15. The ones your friends write.

16. The one your sister-in-law suggests.

17. The ones you took from “take a book, leave a book” shelves in campgrounds. And the ones you bought from people you met in the gypsy camps–the ones they read aloud on the gypsy stages. Those precious pages of self-published souls.

18. The ones in the homes of your brothers and sisters.

19. The ones your nieces and nephews are reading. And writing.

20. The one your uncle mailed.

21. The ones your cousin gives you.

22. The ones your cousins write.

23. The ones that were dropped off for you when you were lost to grief and couldn’t think, or concentrate, or enjoy anything.

24. Every single one written, by every single one of your favorite authors.

25. Every single one written, by every single unappreciated woman.

26. The ones that protect the art of poetry within their pages.

27. The surprise ones you find in random bookstores in your travels.

28. The ones you read a zillion times to your children, and to other children, out loud.

29.  Read those ones a zillion times more.

30. The ones about love.

31. This is all about love.